April 21, 2011 Villiwakkam Sath Sangam, Rajaji Nagar Concert.

It is indeed a second home for Sathya as the rasikas here are so fond of him and so is the organisation, with President Sri Sambamoorthy being the best of the cheer leaders! He is so particular that he gives Sathya the best comforts whenever he comes there to perform. This concert today as enhanced by Sri Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan on Violin, Sri Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam and Sri Ambattur Sundar on Tabla. It is is indeed a great point to note that whenever Sathya teams up with Sri. Sundar it always becomes a landmark concert and this was also one which was attended by Sri. Gopalji, Director of Dinamalar - a leading Tamil daily as Chief Guest and which print media is one of the reasons for Sathya's success growth story. 

Sathya has been performing almost every year from 2006 and so decided to present krithis which was not presented in this forum. It was also interesting that the song Alaipayudhey requested by the Chief Guest has not been played here before by Sathya. Audio tracks of this concert is available in the link :

http://www.mediafire.com/?rdue77r4eym3i

Video link is in http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=110B51945C927FFF

1. Vathapi Ganapathim - Hamsadwani - Adi - Dikshidar (S)
2. Mahasuram - Shanmugapriya - Rupakam - Dikshidar (R)
3. Raja Raja - Niroshta - Adi -Tisranadai (S)
4.NinnuJoochi - Sourastram - Adi Tyagaraja
5. Kaligiyunte - Keerawani - Adi - Tyagaraja (R,S,T)
6. Alaipayudhey - Kaanada - Adi - OVK
7. Thillana - Behag - Adi - Lalgudi Jayaraman
8. Medley - Garland with diferent songs.

Many songs were requested and Sathya did this last piece as a medley combining Pallavi, Anupallavi or Charanams of the requested songs which idea was well received by the audience.  Mr Murali, forum official was so nice to remember instances of Sathya's concerts performed there and blessed him with great future.

PS - S - Kalpanaswaram, N - Nraval, R - Raga aalapana, Th - Thanam, Thani avarthanam

Back to home ground - Ayodhya Mandapam, West Mambalam April 20, 2011

This happened to be Sathya's 801st concert and a blessing indeed to perform this for Sri Rama Samajam, Ayodhya Mandapam in his home turf i.e. West Mambalam. It was a team of local artist from West Mambalam with B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin, NC Bharadwaj on Mrudhangam and Chnadrasekarasharma on Ghatam. Ananthakrishnan was at his usual best and NC Bharwaj playing was very pleasant and also gave a great presentation with Chndrasekarasharma on ghatam during the Thani avarthanam. The concert in totality was remarkable and was with a large audience in spite of the fact that it was scheduled at 5pm.  The details of the krithis performed are as follows:

01. Varnam - Shanmugapriya - Adi - Dr.Balamuralikrishna
02. Raghunayaka - Hamsadwani - Adi - Tyagaraja (S)
03. Durmagachara - RAnjani - Rupakam - Tyagaraja (R, N)
04. Jaya Jaya Padmanabha - Sarasangi - Adi - SwathiThirunal
05. Budhamasrayami - Natakurinji - MisraJampa - Dikshidar
06. Bajare Manasa - Aberi - Adi - Mysore Vasudevachari (R, S, T)
07. Chinanchirukiliye - Ragamalika - Tisranadai - Bharathi (AR)
08. Chnadrasekara - Sindhubhairavi - Ekam - Yanai Vaidhyanadha Iyer(AR)

R - Aalpana S- Kalpanaswaram N- Niraval T Thaniavarthanam AR - Audience request

April 09, 2011 Concert for Karpagam Gardens Sath Sangam

The concert at this place is always held at high esteem as the audience are very knowledgeable and many are actually artists and their relatives who come and listen. If your presentation is good  people never mind staying back to listen to the performance even it is beyond 9pm. Sathya's concert here was enhanced by Sri. Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan on violin, Sri Kumbakonam Swaminthan on Mrudhangam and Hariharasharma on Kanjeera. Sathya was blessed with many in the audience actually singing along and maintaining thalam! He was also happy to note a person in the front row who got very involved with the tem's presentation and appreciated and blessed Sathya at the end revealing himself as brother of Sri Mannargudi Eswaran. He also was in high praise of Sathya's laya gnana! Indeed a great blessing! The details of this presentation is as follow:

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